prescribed

Speech parts

1. prescribed - Adjective

2. prescribed - Verb

4. prescribed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Prescribe

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

official positive ordained appointed decreed given order set required established traditional necessary normal regular votive
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Antonyms

gaudy chance arbitrary informal loose irregular
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Phrases with the word

illegally beyond a prescribed area illegally beyond a prescribed line legally beyond a prescribed area within the prescribed area within the prescribed line prescribed period

Examples

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. Immanuel Kant

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor Adorno

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves. Alfred Bester

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. Herbert Spencer

When a son attends to his father, it is a twofold joy for both; when wise things are prescribed to him, the son is. Egyptian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

prescribable prescribe prescribe medicine for prescribed amount prescribed burn prescribed by